Sheroanawe
Hakihiiwe

Suhena | Hand fan
Monotype printed on rice paper
2018

Suhena | Hand fan, 2018
Monotype printed on rice paper
Courtesy of the artist and ABRA Gallery

Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe has developed a synthetic, concrete, and minimal visual language based upon the vast and intense relationship between his inidgenous Yanomami community and the landscape that surrounds it in the Venezuelan Amazon. These links, between the realms of the personal and the collective, place his work as a contemporary revision of cosmogony and the Yanomami imaginary. 

Hakihiiwe’s works are conceived as an expression of knowledge (natural, medical, and so on) and as the foundation that unites the ancestral with the contemporary in a fragmented time in which past and present coexist, consciously and unconsciously. His references are drawn from signs and symbols found in the body painting, basketry and ritual ceremonies of the Yanomami culture. While these practices are generally associated with the women of the community, Hakihiiwe’s choice and use is a deliberate recovery.


Hahoshi / Tarantula’s ass, 2019
Acrylic on primed paper

Maari Thotho, Bejuco (va) medicinal, 2018
Acrylic on primed paper

Oru parautherimi/ Water snake, 2019
Acrylic on primed paper

Maari Thotho, Bejuco (liana) medicinal, 2018
Acrylic on primed paper

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